Two Indiana borrowers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt President Joe Biden’s student-loan relief plan, saying that his administration is overstepping its authority and forcing them to pay higher state taxes, Bloomberg News reported. The emergency filing, submitted to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, comes 12 days after she summarily rejected a similar bid by a Wisconsin taxpayers group. Justice Barrett is assigned to handle emergency matters from the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to block the program last week. The Biden plan, designed to take effect this month, would forgive as much as $20,000 in federal loans for certain borrowers making less than $125,000 per year or $250,000 for spouses. It could affect more than 40 million people. The filing asks the Supreme Court to block the program while the case is on appeal. It was announced by the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation, which represents the two borrowers.
